State of Denial

The federal Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against California, charging that the Golden State practices unequal treatment by granting illegal aliens in-state tuition, student loans, and other benefits that they deny to U.S. citizens from out of state. As Americans should know, this is a relatively recent development.
The primary mission of the University of California is to serve the top nine percent of the state’s high-school graduates. In 2013, California hired as UC president Janet Napolitano, a former Arizona governor and Department of Homeland Security director with no experience in higher education. Napolitano proceeded to transform the University of California into an immigration agency. (RELATED: California’s Memory Loss)
In 2014, Napolitano launched the President’s Advisory Committee on Undocumented Students. The program provided legal services and advice, counseling, and “Training for students and volunteers in immigration services.” Napolitano also established the California DREAM loan program for undocumented students, with initial funding of $5 million from UC funds and state general funds appropriated to the UC system.
In other words, an academically qualified African-American student from Mississippi would have to pay the “supplemental tuition,” higher than in-state tuition.
The undocumented students are “charged resident fees and exempted from out-of-state supplemental tuition.” In other words, an academically qualified African-American student from Mississippi would have to pay the “supplemental tuition,” higher than in-state tuition. A white student from Mexico — “Hispanic” is not a race — gets the lower in-state tuition.
This is what the DOJ now regards as unequal treatment for out-of-state students. Those students might wonder why it took so long, and why the DOJ and the federal Department of Education ignored other questionable activities in California.
In 2017, when Napolitano was raising tuition and demanding more state funding, sta...